Transition: Ronald Takaki

Sweet passage.

Ronald Takaki, pioneer and legend in ethnic studies, dies at age 70

Ronald Takaki, professor emeritus of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a preeminent scholar of U.S. race relations who taught the University of California’s first black history course, died at his home in Berkeley on Tuesday, May 26, at age 70. He had struggled for years with multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune condition that attacks the central nervous system. (Full article)